Tuesday, 7 June 2011

After almost 4 months, the white lions have made a return to our area! We sent out a whole tracking team to locate them this morning, and eventually towards the end of the drive they managed to find them!

Grant was the only one who got to see them - they appeared a bit nervous of the vehicles, which is understandable considering their 4-month absence...but I will let Grant fill you in on the details later when he is back from drive!

Hi there all,

I've added some pic's that I took so that you can see how big they have become and in what great condition they are in. Truth be told, on finding them I forgot I had a camera and only came too as they were moving off. Realising I had not taken any pic's I shot these off more as proof for Chad. It was great to just sit and marvel at our long lost friends!

I'll post a blog with the entire story asap, lets hope it's one of many!

thanks for all the comments - had a great sighting of them in the afternoon again - be sure to check out the blog post for tomorrow!

@yves - they actually came through ingwelala last night, but dont ever appear to spend time on there for some reason - only once do they appear to have spent more than a day there...just glad to have them this side again, instead of opposite phalaborwa mine!

thanks so much for all the comments and views - was great to see them again, and yes, they look fantastic - they had a zebra kill today that Herald got to see :)

@anonymous 14:15 - thanks for the comments! you are 100% correct, they are not albinos, they do contain pigmentation, but its a condition known as leucism...both parents are normal tawny coloured lions, but clearly both carried the genes...the grandmother of the whites (i.e. tawny mother's own mom) had white cubs in 2006, so we knew that the daughters and sons probably had the gene...so it was not a complete surprise when they were born - even the mother of the whites is a slighty lighter colour than a non-gene carrying individual...hope that answers the questions :)

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